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One reader's thoughts as she steps from book to book.
Books I've Finished
- "A Christmas Memory"
- by Truman Capote 12/8/12
- "Child's Christmas in Wales"
- by Dylan Thomas 12/7/12
- "One Christmas"
- by Truman Capote 11/29/12
- "The Thanksgiving Visitor"
- by Truman Capote 11/29/12
- Inside Mrs. B's Classroom
- by Leslie Baldacci 11/28/12
- The Bee Eater
- by Richard Whitmire 11/15/12
- There Are No Shortcuts
- by Rafe Esquith 10/28/12
- I'd Like to Apologize to
- Every Teacher I Ever Had
- by Tony Danza 10/21/12
- Corked
- by Kathryn Borel 10/15/12
- Year of Learning Dangerously
- by Quinn Cummings 9/30/12
- A Hologram for the King
- by Dave Eggers 8/23/12
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- by Harper Lee 7/18/12
About Me
- Christine
- I often have a few books with bookmarks in them at once. I enjoy classics more than contemporary works of fiction, often read historical fiction, and love to get glimpses into other people's lives by reading memoirs and biographies.
5 comments:
Well, I'm repeating myself, but "Chasing Monarchs" makes me want to pack up the car and head for the road. No particular route in mind.
It's so hard to choose. Even within a genre, even within one author's works, it's hard to choose one. Often what I'm currently reading is my favorite book, though sometimes it's just the book nearest to hand. There are definately books I don't like, and I don't think I'd have such a hard time ranking those (not too many, at least, not that I've actually read through) but it's much harder to rank the ones I love. DRD
Titus Andronicus and The Winter's Tale by Shakespeare make me want to travel - travel somewhere far away from here so I can have more than the assigned day to finish reading both plays. But no, seriously, Under the Tuscan Sun makes me want to travel and, strangely enough, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson makes me want to travel. Don't ask me why, it just does.
Hands down, it has GOT to be "Road Fever" by Tim Cahill. Allow Amazon to explain why:
If you define "adventure travel" as anything that's more fun to read about than to live through, then Tim Cahill's Road Fever is the adventure of a lifetime. Along with professional long-distance driver Garry Sowerby, Cahill drove 15,000 miles from the southernmost tip of Tierra del Fuego to the northernmost terminus of the Dalton Highway in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, from one end of the world to another, in a record-breaking 23 1/2 days. Just like the authors' camper-shelled GMC Sierra truck, the narrative bounces along at a relentless pace. Along the way Cahill and Sowerby cope with mood swings, engine trouble, Andean cliffs, obstinate bureaucracies, slick highways, armed and uncomprehending soldiery (not to mention the challenges of securing O.P.M., or Other People's Money--the sine qua non of adventure, Cahill observes). Cahill is equipped with the correct amalgam of chutzpah and dementia to survive what can only be called "The Road Trip From Hell."
And yeah, I second the Fear and Loathing vote.
Also Bill Bryson.
Do I love travel books? Yeah.
Years ago I read "Blue Highways", by by William Least Heat Moon. I remember really enjoying it. He takes a trip across America on the blue lines shown on a map - the lesser highways. Also, "Kingdom by the Sea", about the British Isles, or England, by Paul Theroux. That was a college read. I like travel books - even this "Three Cups of Tea" has a lot of travel.
I was all prepared to read about biking in Europe, but I lost the library book and had to pay for it. "Road Fever" sounds good - might have to try it...
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